THE CEO'S VENGEFUL BRIDE
Eleanor Whitestone was bred for perfection, polished, poised, and promised to the man her father handpicked to secure their empire. But on her wedding day, everything shatters when she catches her fiancé in bed with her own sister. Humiliated and discarded, Eleanor’s world collapses in a single, brutal moment.
Drowning in champagne and desperation, she makes a reckless choice: one night in the arms of Damian Laird, the city’s most ruthless billionaire CEO and her ex-fiancé’s sworn rival. She never expects the morning after to come with a proposition as shocking as her betrayal: marry him, carry his heir, and together they’ll destroy the people who broke her.
Damian is cold, calculating, and devastatingly magnetic. He doesn’t believe in love but he does believe in revenge. And Eleanor is the perfect weapon…if she can survive the war they’re about to wage.
But in a high stakes game of power and seduction, lines blur, and desire ignites into something neither of them saw coming.
This time, Eleanor won’t be a pawn. She’ll be the queen and she’ll burn down anyone who tries to cage her again.
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Chapter: Chapter Twenty EleanorThe morning sun broke through the gauzy curtains like a thief, slipping across my face and dragging me, unwillingly, into consciousness. I blinked against the light, momentarily disoriented. The sheets were tangled around me, a silky prison of confusion and twisted dreams. For a moment, I didn’t remember where I was.Then I heard the soft clink of porcelain from the other room.Damian. The villaThe board meetings. And the emotional whiplash that was now my daily reality.I sat up slowly, the sheets sliding off my bare arms. Last night replayed like a film behind my eyes the quiet dinner, the unexpected stories, the stolen glances. It had all felt... intimate. Too intimate. And I hated how easily I had let my guard drop, even for a secondI ran a hand over my face, trying to banish the lingering heat that clung to my skin like a secret. This wasn’t a vacation. This wasn’t a honeymoon. And Damian was not my lover, no matter how many times my traitorous mind tried to imagine ot
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Chapter: Chapter Nineteen EleanorThe morning sun broke through the gauzy curtains like a thief, slipping across my face and dragging me, unwillingly, into consciousness. I blinked against the light, momentarily disoriented. The sheets were tangled around me, a silky prison of confusion and twisted dreams. For a moment, I didn’t remember where I was.Then I heard the soft clink of porcelain from the other room.Damian. The villaThe board meetings. And the emotional whiplash that was now my daily reality.I sat up slowly, the sheets sliding off my bare arms. Last night replayed like a film behind my eyes the quiet dinner, the unexpected stories, the stolen glances. It had all felt... intimate. Too intimate. And I hated how easily I had let my guard drop, even for a secondI ran a hand over my face, trying to banish the lingering heat that clung to my skin like a secret. This wasn’t a vacation. This wasn’t a honeymoon. And Damian was not my lover, no matter how many times my traitorous mind tried to imagine ot
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Chapter: Chapter Eighteen DamianI should have looked away.Should’ve ignored the imprint of her lips on the rim of the wineglass. Should have focused on my food, on the real reason we were in this place halfway across the world. But Eleanor had a way of slipping beneath my skin without even trying. And it was getting harder to pretend I didn’t feel it.She was supposed to be my assistant. My distraction free, logic driven assistant who always had a clipboard and a schedule and zero tolerance for my nonsense. But lately... she was something else entirely. Complicated. Soft. Unpredictably magnetic.I watched her walk away, claiming it was jet lag. Liar.I saw it in her eyes, how she clutched her wineglass like it might anchor her. How she pulled her guard back up like armor. She was running. And I couldn’t even blame her.Because I was doing the same thing. I leaned back in my chair and let out a breath, staring at the empty spot where she had been sitting minutes ago. Her laugh, once sharp and dry, had turned
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Chapter: Chapter Seventeen EleanorThe table was quiet, save for the soft clinks of silverware against porcelain. A rare thing, silence especially with me. Normally, I filled the room with quick wit and sarcastic comebacks, masking discomfort with carefully timed jokes. But tonight? I didn’t have it in me.Maybe it was the wine. Maybe it was the jet lag. Or maybe it was the man sitting across from me.There was an impressive spread between us, grilled fish, spiced rice, and sautéed noodles in rich sauces. The kind of meal that would usually have me humming with delight and demanding seconds. But I barely tasted anything.Damian sat across from me, a man who always seemed larger than life. Brooding, sharp jawed, impossibly wealthy and even more impossibly private. A man I had worked beside for years, trading clipped emails, strategic conversations, and the occasional deadpan joke. But never this. Never... dinner.He was watching me now, not with the cold calculation I was used to, but something gentler. Curious.
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Chapter: Chapter Sixteen Eleanor“Sorry,” I murmured, my voice cracking slightly as I took a careful step back from Damian. The tremor in my voice betrayed me, it gave away more than I wanted him to see.His eyes met mine. “Be careful,” he said, and something in his tone shifted richer, lower. A gravelly thread of heat rippled through the words, and suddenly, I knew.He wasn’t unaffected.That brief moment, my body pressed against his, my palm flat on his chest, his arm steadying my waist had hit him too. Maybe not quite the same way, maybe he was better at masking it, but I felt it. The heat, the tension. I saw the flicker in his eyes.And that didn’t make this any easier. If anything, it made things far worse.I twisted the engagement ring around my finger like it was a worry stone. The motion was familiar, grounding. And I clung to it because I needed the reminder.This isn’t real.I didn’t need a relationship. Not with Damian, not with anyone. I didn’t want to belong to someone. I didn’t want anyone to ow
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Chapter: Chapter FifteenEleanor Late into the night, the private jet touched down on Koh Samui and I felt a tight knot simmering in my chest. I knew Damian ran things like clockwork, but seeing it in action, jet, driver, limousine waiting in the humid dark drove home how completely he controlled the narrative. It was impressive. And unnervingly efficient.I took a deep breath of the warm, salty air, letting it slide past me as I entered the stretch limo. Heat, humidity, tropical life mashing together in an overload of sensation… and I still felt icy around the edges. Damian sank into the seat beside me, his posture relaxed, sleeves rolled up to reveal sun kissed forearms that made my skin clench with a cocktail of admiration and self loathing.He leaned over and whispered, “Don’t feel the limo is cliché?”My gaze drifted across the cool leather interior. I ran my fingertips over it. “It’s a bit much.” I kept my tone casual businesslike, not breathy.He chuckled. “Practical. Privacy. Room to work.” Then his
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